Training School Graduates Receive Certificates Front Our Own Comzsronpexr Sungkiang, Ku, July 31.
The new bridge Is about Mnished and it is a great improvement over the old one. The dredging of the canals, however, is not yet over and it shows the long suffering of the Chinese people that they have put up with the inconvenience #0 long, pecially in this hot weather, A Chinese "newspaper remarked somewhat ironically that the dredging of canals was never known before in the midst of the Great Heat, The authorities, however, found that the worms bred in large numbers In the foul water were nutritious so the People were favoured, Yesterday witnessed the graduation exercises of a kind of officers training school. "Representives from nine dis tricts have been training for three months and got their certificates yesterday. There were 397 graduates. These have been given their appointments at twenty-five dollars per month. They will be the instructors {in the proposed forthcoming universal Jarill, which is to begin to-morrow. It is reported that one representative from each family will be given military instruction. Buddhist priests Are also being given a special drill; there being sixty. gathered, together who will be given' physical drill for the botter development of their bodies. They will also be instructed in First Aid treatment, which is to at them to act as nurses in case of a ws The nuns will also be looked a! when the priests have had their turn.
'A reform has been started here which has great possibilities. The beggars have been token off the freet. Native beggars are put into an institution with the intention of teaching them some. useful trade. Beggars from a distance are given their walking papers. Not a beggar has been on the street now for some time. Things are rather quiet down here with all the schools closed. Some volunteer teachers, however, have opened a free vacation school.
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